σόγχος

Ancient Greek

σόγχος – Sonchus oleraceus

Alternative forms

• σόγκος (sónkos)

Etymology

According to Beekes, of Pre-Greek origin due to the presence of the variation. Furnée links the word with Basque tšokoŕo (“silver thistle”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sóŋ.kʰos/ → /ˈsoŋ.xos/ → /ˈsoŋ.xos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sóŋ.kʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsoŋ.kʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsoŋ.xos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsoŋ.xos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsoŋ.xos/

Noun

σόγχος • (sónkhos) m (genitive σόγχου); second declension

1. sow thistle (plant of the genus Sonchus)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ σόγχος; τοῦ σόγχου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σόγχος ho sónkhos	τὼ σόγχω tṑ sónkhō	οἱ σόγχοι hoi sónkhoi
Genitive	τοῦ σόγχου toû sónkhou	τοῖν σόγχοιν toîn sónkhoin	τῶν σόγχων tôn sónkhōn
Dative	τῷ σόγχῳ tôi sónkhōi	τοῖν σόγχοιν toîn sónkhoin	τοῖς σόγχοις toîs sónkhois
Accusative	τὸν σόγχον tòn sónkhon	τὼ σόγχω tṑ sónkhō	τοὺς σόγχους toùs sónkhous
Vocative	σόγχε sónkhe	σόγχω sónkhō	σόγχοι sónkhoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σογχίτης (sonkhítēs)
• σογχώδης (sonkhṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: sonchus
  • → Translingual: Sonchus

Further reading

• “σόγχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σόγχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN